Banská Bystrica (svk)

Banská Bystrica

Banská Bystrica ranks 951st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chiswick, Matsudo, and Landshut. The most famous people from Banská Bystrica are Peter Pellegrini, Marek Hamšík, and László Hudec. Banská Bystrica has been the birth place of many soccer players, and hockey players. Banská Bystrica is located in Slovakia.

Banská Bystrica is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. With approximately 76,000 inhabitants, Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia. The present-day town was founded by German settlers who were invited by the Hungarian Árpád kings during the Middle Ages, but it was built upon a former Slavic/Slovakian/Avar settlement. It became a part of Zólyom County after Hungarian conquest. In 1255, during the reign of Béla IV of Hungary, it obtained the municipal privileges of a free royal town of the Kingdom of Hungary and was resettled by Germans from Thüringen. The copper mining town acquired its present picturesque look in the late Middle Ages when the prosperous burghers built its central churches, mansions, and fortifications. It is the capital of the kraj and the okres. It is also the home of Matej Bel University. As a historical town with easy access to the surrounding mountains, Banská Bystrica is a popular winter and summer tourist destination. Read more on Wikipedia